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San Sebastiano Campo San Sebastiano, Venice, 30122 | ![]() |
Alberti's churches in Mantua, designed for Marquis Ludovico Gonzaga, are reinterpretations of ecclesiastical architecture in antique terms. San Sebastiano is a Greek-cross votive church raised over a high crypt packed wi... more
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Museo Vetrario di Murano Fondamenta Marco Giustinian 8, Venezia, 30121 | ![]() |
Despite the fact that the Museo Vetrario was closed and the canals were under construction there still were some nice sites we wanted to visit. Murano with a similar shape to Venice, is a nine island system, connected by... more
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San Francesco della Vigna 2786 Castello, Campo San Francesco, Venice, 30122 | ![]() |
Three stone reliefs, encased in roundels, are located above the doorway. The first roundel contains the letters IHS (the abbreviation of the name Jesus in Greek) in a disk surrounded by flames. This is the symbol of San ... more
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San Stae Campo San Stae, Venice, 30135 | ![]() |
Venice was nearly a second home to Sargent who had known the city from his early youth. In the 1880s, his somber-toned Venetian paintings focused on local life seen through doorways and along the narrow streets far remov... more
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Chiesa del SS. Redentore 195 Via Giudecca, Venice, 30035 | ![]() |
A third of the population of Venice - around 50,000 people - died over 1575-76. To give thanks for the passing of the plague the Senate voted funds for the construction of a church to mark their redemption. Situated on t... more
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Barovier 3216 Salizada San Samuele, Venice, 30124 | ![]() |
Barovier, Venini and Seguso—arguably the triumvirate of leading Venetian glassmakers on the island of Murano—have practically become household names. For most of the 20th century they created sculptures in th... more
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Santa Maria del Giglio o Zobenigo Campo Santa Maria Del Giglio O Zobenigo, Venice, 30124 | ![]() |
Another façade that drew the censure of Ruskin for its total lack of any Christian symbols (give or take a token angel or two). Built between 1678 and 1683, it's really a huge exercise in defiant self-glorificatio... more
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Carlo Moretti San Marco 1468, Campo San Moise, Venezia, 30124 | ![]() |
Carlo Moretti was born in Murano in 1934. Currently he lives in Venice with his wife Bruna Matteotti in an apartment overlooking the rooftops and canals adjacent to the Rialto Bridge. Carlo Moretti and his bother Giovann... more
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Parco San Giuliano Parco San Giuliano, Mestre, 31073 | ![]() |
Parco San Giuliano is a metropolitan waterfront park designed by AD+A, Inc. that converts an under-utilized industrial area into a recreational, educational, and cultural center that connects the city of Venice with main... more
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Verona Verona, 37100 | ![]() |
The causeway now links Venice to the mainland so the train pulls right into Saint Lucia station on the 'island'. The station leads out to the Canal Grande but instead of busses waiting to take us too our hotel there are ... more
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